New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-26
COAL COMPANIES AT WORK.
THE NEW MEN SAID TO BE DOING WELL.

Anc NE" MEN sAID TO BE DOING WELL
STRIKERS UNDIsMAYXD HowEvER-DRAsrrc MEAS.
UREs THREATENED.
At the headquarters Of District Assembly Nd
40, In Canal-st it was reported yesterday that n
new steps had been taken in the coal strike 1--WE
will wait and see how effective the measures ws
| have already taken are said member of the
Executive Board. If they do not accomplish
our purpose, then we will take others. We have
already put the companies to an expense Of %
ton for handling coal against twenty cents
formerly, and we will raise the cost higher than
that before VIC are through with them. How
long the strike will last depends on how long they
can afford that sort Of business The effective
ness of the measures to shut OF the supply of
coal from the steamers has not been tested ye6
The scarcity OF coal in this city is felt by the
poor TO great extent. and the bureaus estsb.
llshed to aid them are receiving many more sp.
phcatlons FOR assistance than they can take care
OF. Az the office of the Society for the Improve
mcnt OF the Condition OF the Poor in Fourth-ave
the secretary said yesterday that there had been
much larger number Of appeals during the
present month than there were last year for the
same time. But the society has been able 60
attend to all the cases found worthy.
At Assemblyman Dalton's distribution bureau
appeals number Of women came from Brook
lyn with baskets or sacks, and the applications
nom women who lived many blocks from the
place ran into the hundreds. Previous to yester
day no coal could be obtained for this charitable
enterprise. but the president Of large retail
company allowed Mr.. Dalton to draw on its yard
TO supply urgent cases.
In many west side shops signs announce that
coal can be bought for sixty cents bag Of 100
pounds, or at eighteen cents pail Since the
coal trouble began there he's been great increase
In the use Of kindtng wood. This is put up in
punches which retail at two cents each and arc
sold at 81 80 hundred. The wood makes quick
fire and many families using it exclusively
for cooking purposes burning coal only to heat
their rooms. The Knights of Labor have not yet
interfered with the kindling wood business in any
way. knight said to TRIBUNE reporter
yesterday: "A strike is strike, and we are IN
this thing DO win. IL cannot do so by fair
means, then we will adopt foul II the
strike continues until the companies give Inland
1 think it will-there will doubt, be q great
amount Of suffering But then the more people
suffer the greater will be the cry against the com
panies, and purely from public Indignation and
protestation they will be compelled to give up tho
fight
Had It not been for the prompt action Of tho
police yesterday there would probably have been
several collisions between the handlers in this
city who refused to handle "scab' coal and tho
new men who put N their places. Stokes
& Thedford, who were compelled to stop un-
loading on Monday because their men left WORK.
got few new men at their pier yesterday and
barge which was lying there was unloaded under
police protection. The strikers, rough. uncouth
dangerous looking men, assembled in small groups
near the yard and and angrily watched the
work of their successors, but the long nighs
sticks Of the police kept them from doing any
violence. The drivers on kctterer Iiayes's
carts struck. and small number Of officers were
sent to their yard in 1hiItethst. TO protect tho
property. At Piers Nos. 13 and IA, Fast River.
the handlers also refused to work ard ponce were
sent thither. Captain Gastlin Of the Steamboat
Squad, has made arrangements to call upon all
the police reserves at any time he needs Them.
| Fifteen Of his men were employed to watch 'F1er
No. 6, North River. where the steam Company
! is unloading coal.
The strike of the soft coal handlers in South
Amboy will not materially interfere with estab-
lishments or steamers that that kind Of coal.
for the men who were employed by The Berwlnd-
White Coal Company have been bold to say by
this morning whether they will return to work
or not ! ii not, arrangements VIII be made I'M
mediatcly to supply their places.
The officers Of the various coal companies now
say that there is strike Of their employees,
as they do not consider that the men who ieto
them have any ,further connection with thens
and il they return to work they must do so %
new hands.
TIE Elm Flax Mills at Tcnthave and Fifty
seventh-st where from 200 TO 300 men are en-
poyed, viii have b shut down to-day or To-
morrow on account of the scarcky of coal
The Anchor Line has secured nearly enough coal
for its next steamer, but had to pay about ~
a ton for 500 tons. The White Star Line expects
10 get the Britannia away tomorrow with
sut!iciency of coal and cargo The Alexandra Limo
is stin undecided whether the Chy of Pueola'
which is Advertised to sail for Havana tomorrow.
will be able to get away The persons on the
pier yesterday were four policemen three custom
House officers and the dock superintendent No
freight was sent to the pier. for there were no
lon2shoremen to handle It. ana coatpoa. iay
aIonrside of the vessel full of coal ready to be
put on board. The Wards Line steamers viii
probably sail this week with coal and cargo, bue
Il is doubtful about the steamers of next week.
A number Of men employed to shovel coal on tne
BROOKLYN water front struck yesterday, saying they
would NOT work until the demands OF the men
at the shipping points were conceded. Ii
feared that this action will tend to increase th
price Of coal.